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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:58:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        James Munro <jimmn_1999@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apache not included
Message-ID:  <20060125135715.Q4994@wolf.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060125213407.6168.qmail@web33002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060125213407.6168.qmail@web33002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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> I'm a bit of a new user to BSD from Windows/Linux.  But I recently went 
> thru the 5.4 version installer and was pleased at how simple it was to 
> install the Apache web server thru the sysinstall menus.  After 
> reinstalling with 6.0 I was surprised to find that apache wasn't an 
> option from this menu.
>
>  Any ideas if this is an omission or intentional?  I would think a 
> webserver would definitely be included in the basic config.

I'm guessing it was intentional.  I can think of a lot of reasons I 
wouldn't want a webserver on my box (desktop, mail server, database 
server, chat server, etc...)

Easy to add though via ports or packages.

-philip



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